Point /latest to latest released version (including pre-releases)

[sloria]

Currently stable is an alias for the latest stable git tag and latest points to the HEAD of a specified git branch. As was pointed out in #965, users usually only deal with released versions (rather than development versions). I would like latest to be an alias for the latest pre-release version. Is this possible?

[stsewd]

rtd doesn't support automatically pointing latest to the new pre-release version. But you can set the commit/branch (I think it works with tags too) to which latest point in the admin panel of your project.

[sloria]

@stsewd True, but that requires manual intervention for every release. Ideally, latest (or some other alias) would automatically point the latest release.

[humitos]

If I understand correctly, this is a big change regarding the concept around latest. We use latest as the "most recent change/commit" in the repository tied to a specific branch (master by default in Git -but this can be changed from the admin).

I think you are proposing to use latest for "latest pre-release" and stable for "latest release" which will break the concept behind the latest alias.

Is this possible?

At this moment, no.

[sloria]

@humitos Thanks for the clarification. Perhaps there should be a separate alias, then, that points to the latest release and does not exclude pre-releases?

[stale]

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[stsewd]

This is still valid, but requires a design decision

[agjohnson]

I'd prefer we address this with the version rules feature I've been looking for -- #4001

[EwoutH]

I would love a convenient tag other than stable and latest that always points to the latest pre-release. A native prerelease tag would be very convenient!